[kde-linux] Akonadi_maildir_resource

[David Baron]

My KDE4 is excruciatingly slow to start up. The culprit is Akonadi. 
Specifically akonadi_maildir_resource. A zillion of these start up and until 
most of them die out, nothing can move. I have not been able to simply ask for 
one or a desired small number of these (I have one vcs/maildir folder--how 
many "resources" does the require for kmail to run properly?).

How can one fix this or get it under some control?

Alternative mail program and scrap akonadi (or at least all its processes 
touching email)?